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brief compass, such important and useful instruc- 

 tions and details on the daily work and care neces- 

 sary to a successful cultivation, and above all on 

 the entire importance of preserving the vineyard 

 constantly free of noxious weeds, that we shall 

 consider it a great point in favour of the vine, 

 should it become the manual, not only of the 

 practical vine dresser, but of the intelligent pro- 

 prietor of our Canton, who will find in the un- 

 adorned directions it contains, the most efficient 

 practical instructions on the pursuit in which he 

 is engaged. 



Whence indeed should we hope for a better 

 system of culture than from among the masters 

 of the art in a small country, which, with an ex- 

 tent of but four or five leagues in length, and in 

 some parts of it, even less than the breadth of 

 half a league, we find that of all the countries of 

 Europe, the vine has attained the highest degree 

 of perfection, where a skilful cultivator has pro- 

 duced on a given space the greatest quantity of 

 fruit, and when a soil possessing from nature but 

 little fertility, has acquired for the purposes of 

 cultivation, the greatest possible value that could 

 be given to it. 



